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Time

The Afghan film, ‘Earth and Ashes’ screening later in the day is a slow, meditative story about a broken, dusty land where families are separated from each other by the devastation of war.  The feeling one is left with is that of the agony of waiting (an old man and his grandson wait endlessly by the roadside for a truck that, it seems, will never come).  It is an example of the relative nature of time on film.  What might seem excruciatingly slow in another context here serves a purpose.  This is, it seems, the experience of time under such conditions and for such people.  No easy transport systems, certainly no private cars.  Just the endless and anonymous wait by the side of a dusty road. 

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